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	Funding Opportunities Biocomplexity in the Environment
	FY 2000 Awards

Biocomplexity Phase II: Integrated Research to Understand and Model Complexity Among Biological, Physical, and Social Systems –


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Total Awarded	Principal Investigator	Title	Institution

INTEGRATED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AWARDS

$ 1,000,000	J. Stephen Lansing	Emergence of Cooperation from Human-Environmental Interactions	University of Arizona

$ 1,041,073	Pablo A. Iglesias	Mathematical and Biological Modeling of Cell Polarization	Johns Hopkins University

$ 2,500,000	James H. Brown	Scaling Biodiversity: Physical and Biological Foundations of Ecological Principles	University of New Mexico

$ 2,600,000	Peter G. Verity	Bio-Feedback Basis of Self Organization in Planktonic Ecosystems Using Phaeocystis as a Model Complex Adaptive System	Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

$ 2,749,232	Elinor Ostrom	Agent-Based Models of Land Use Decisions and Emergent Land Use Patterns	Indiana University at Bloomington

$ 2,836,565	Charles R. Marshall	The Co-Evolution of Biodiversity and the Environment Through Geologic time	Harvard University

$ 2,965,346	Claudia M. Neuhauser	Evolution and Ecology of Perturned Interactions: Modeling Disequilibria in Time and Space	University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

$ 2,998,607	Stephen R. Carpenter	Divergent Dynamics: Complex Interactions of Riparian Land, People, and Lakes	University of Wisconsin at Madison

$ 2,999,320	James A. Glazier	Multiscale Simulation of Avian Limb Development	University of Notre Dame

$ 2,999,766	Simon A. Levin	The Emergence of Ecosystem Pattern	Princeton University

$ 2,999,982	Herbert Levine	From Gene Expression to Morphology and Multicellular Organization and Dictyostelium	University of California at San Diego

$ 3,000,000	Mark B. Bain	Physical, Biological, and Human Interactions Shaping the Ecosystems of Freshwater Bays and Lagoons	Cornell University

$ 3,012,432	Jesus G. Pineda	Marine Benthic Population Dynamics	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

$ 3,799,621	Alan M. Hastings	Dynamics of an Invasive Non-Native Species and its Biological, Physical, and Human Impacts: Spartina Alterniflora on the Pacific Coast	University of California at Davis

$ 3,999,995	Paul G. Falkowski	The Evolution and Radiation of Eucaryotic Phytoplankton Taxa (EREUPT)	Rutgers University New Brunswick

$ 4,188,575	David C. Duffy	Biocomplexity of Introduced Avian Diseases in Hawaii: Threats to Biodiversity of Native Forest Systems	University of Hawaii at Manoa

AWARDS FOR EXPLORATORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES

$ 4,422	Stephen P. Borgatti	Collaborative Research: Networking the "Invisible Colleges": Application of Network Theory to Biocomplexity	Boston College

$ 32,976	Michael S. Webster	Connectivity of Migratory Populations and its Consequences for Population Dynamics and Microevolutionary Processes	Washington State University

$ 46,302	Patricia A. Matrai	Earth System Regulation Through Biogenic Sulfure-Molecular to Global Interactions and Feedbacks	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

$ 49,215	Jeffrey C. Johnson	Collaborative Research: Networking the "Invisible Colleges:" Application of Network Theory to Biocomplexity	East Carolina University

$ 61,291	Roseanne M. Ford	Quantitative Description of the Response of a Complex System to Disturbance: Subsurface Microbial Communities and Chemical Contaminants	University of Virginia

$ 61,896	Gretchen E. Hofmann	Linking Ecology, Physiology, and Climate Change: Influence of Environmental Stress on Community Structure in the Rocky Intertidal	Arizona State University

$ 61,896	Robert Harriss	Understanding the Role of Urbanization as a Driving Force of Global Atmospheric Change (This award is under a Cooperative Agreement with UCAR. Contact UCAR for more information.)	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

$ 71,164	David B. Eggleston	Interactions Between Life and Environment in the Coastal Zone, North Carolina	North Carolina State University

$ 79,214	William D. Newmark	Large Mammal Movement Through Complex Landscapes in East Africa	University of Utah

$ 86,954	S. Craig Cary	Origins of Biocomplexity: Colonization and Succession of Microbial Communities in a Dynamic Geochemical Environment	University of Delaware

$ 92,034	Thomas E. Miller	A Synthetic Approach of Phytotelmata Communities	Florida State University

$ 92,803	Karen D. Holl	Linking Large-Scale Hydrological and Biological Processes in Restoring Riparian Forest Ecosystems	University of California at Santa Cruz

$ 93,409	Gary S. Kleppel	Consequences of Urban Encroachment on Natural Ecosystems	State University of New York at Albany

$ 94,935	Mark E. Harmon	Examining Emergent Behaviors of Landscapes Using an Integrated Process-Based Perspective	Oregon State University

$ 96,036	Philip J. Nyhus	Models and Meta-Networks for Interdisciplinary Research in Biodiversity Risk Assessment	Colby College

$ 96,918	Paulo Lima-Filho	Application of Mathematical Methods and Scientific Computation to Complex Ecological Problems	Texas A&M; University

$ 98,517	William J. George	Exploration of Feedback Mechanisms Influencing Contaminant Flux and the Ecology of the Lower Mississippi River System	Tulane University

$ 98,890	W. Charles Kerfoot	Biocomplexity and Aquatic Food Webs: Algal and Zooplankton Diversity Against a Backdrop of Human Stochiometric Disturbances	Michigan Technological University

$ 98,904	Reinhard C. Laubenbacher	The Mathematics of Network Dynamics in Biological, Social and Economic Systems	New Mexico State University

$ 99,181	Catherine A. Gehring	The Effects of Global Change on Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem-Level Processes in Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands	Northern Arizona University

$ 99,251	Charles L. Redman	Integrating Social Science Into Long-Term Ecological Research	Arizona State University

$ 99,493	Morris Goodman	Development of the Human Species and Its Adaptation to the Environment	American Academy of Arts and Sciences

$ 99,497	Emilio F. Moran	Integration of Spatial, Ecological, and Environmental Social Sciecne Methods for the Study of Biodiversity and Biocomplexity	Indiana University at Bloomington

$ 99,501	Gail S. Tonnesen	Designing a Sustainable Southern California: Exploring Interdisciplinary Studies of Complexity in Natural and Human Systems	University of California at Riverside

$ 99,540	Scott D. Bridgham	Biocomplexity in the Peatlands	University of Notre Dame

$ 99,663	Larry Roesner	Modeling Urban Aquatic Ecology/Hydrologic/Geomorphologic Relationships on Urbanizing Streams in the West	Colorado State University

$ 99,694	Richard C. Rockwell	Complex Systems: Cities in Their Environments	University of Connecticut

$ 99,934	David M. Lodge	Risk Assessment of Nonindigenous Species	University of Notre Dame

$ 99,940	Gus Koehler	Visualizing Dynamics Resulting from the Political Regulation of Time-Ecologies	California State Library Foundation

$ 99,958	Martin E. Feder	Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics: Jumpstarting a Multidisciplinary Field	University of Chicago

$ 99,965	John J. Tyson	A Collaborative Problem Solving Environment for Computational Modelin of Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Controls	Virginia Polytechnic Institute

$ 99,966	Robert DeSalle	Development of an Integrated Research Plan for Analyzing the Viability of a Marine Reserve Netword	American Museum of Natural History

$ 99,972	James H. Morison	Workshops on Prediction of the Ecological and Societal Impacts of Environmental Arctic Change	University of Washington

$ 99,973	Daniel G. Brown	Exploring Biocomplexity at the Interface of Social and Ecological Systems	University of Michigan

$ 99,984	Patricia J. S. Colberg	Developing Conceptual and Mathematical Approaches to Model Transport and Transformation of Elements through a Geothermal Landscape	University of Wyoming

$ 99,992	Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi	Impact of Industrial Products and Processes on Biocomplexity -- A Multidisciplinary Approach with Applications to Fiber Products and Processes	Auburn University

$ 99,996	Amelia K. Ward	Drought in Mesic and Arid Environments: Climatology, Biotic Responses, and Feedbacks	University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa

$ 99,999	Richard Gomilkiewicz	Integrated Approaches to Studies of Infinite-Dimensional Trait Evolution in Natural Populations	Washington State University

$ 99,999	V. Kerry Smith	Integrated Modeling of the Complementarities and Conflicts Between Ecological Systems and Economic Activities in North Carolina	North Carolina State University

$ 100,000	Joel L. Morrison	Biocomplexity Incubation Proposal for Lake Erie	Ohio State University

$ 100,000	Jack A. Stanford	Dynamic Controls on Emergent Properties of River Flood Plains	University of Montana

$ 100,000	Neo D. Martinez	Scaling of Network Complexity with Diversity in Food Webs	San Francisco State University

$ 100,000	Jefferson M. Fox	Human Actions and Land-Use/Land-Cover Change	Center for Cultural and Technological Interchange

$ 100,000	Pamela S. Soltis	Genome Evolution and Macroevolutionary Diversification in Green Plants	Washington State University

$ 100,000	James A. Teeri	A New Biocomplexity Research Program for the Analysis of Forest Ecosystem Dynamics	University of Michigan

$ 100,000	David A. Wedin	Spatiotemporal Coupling of Ecological and Geological Dynamics in Nebraska Sand Hills	University of Nebraska at Lincoln

$ 100,000	Ingrid M. Parker	Addressing the Synergy Between Abiotic and Biotic Agents of Environmental Change	University of California at Santa Cruz

$ 104,093	Roberta L. Marinelli	Multiscale Models of Ecological and Geochemical Interactions in Marine Sedimentary Environments	University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences

$ 108,008	Pedro Verdugo	The Colloid Gap: Interfacial Phenomena Among Marine Biological, Chemical, and Physical Environmental Systems in Carbon Cycling	University of Washington

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Last Updated: 06/17/2004